The RCMP has told owners to turn in what the force is calling fully automatic military surplus firearms after hundreds were misidentified and allowed into Canada for commercial sale.

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      1 year ago

      Ya, good catch. The firearms in question were manufactured as full auto, but have been converted into semi automatic. That’s not enough to make them legal, I guess.

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        1 year ago

        Because it’s likely trivial to convert them back to fully auto, whereas doing so to a weapon that was never intended to be fully auto is likely more difficult.

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          1 year ago

          Because it’s likely trivial to convert them back to fully auto

          Yeah but that would be illegal so no one would do that right

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      1 year ago

      The headline is accurate. The bots summary is misleading. Full auto versions were accidentally sold as semi-auto. Two different versions of the same firearm.

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        1 year ago

        Bots summary?

        And the summary and headline basically say the same thing. You have to go a few paragraphs in to understand what they really mean.

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      The Tavor X95 MSW (Military Surplus) is a restricted variant that is full auto unlike the Tavor X95.